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126 free Candy trivia questions with answers — food & drink quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
59 free candy trivia questions with answers. This candy quiz is written so kids of about 8 to 12 can play along with the grown-ups: what the little 'm' and 's' stand for, why cotton candy was invented by a dentist, which candy is named after a racehorse, what is hiding inside a Kinder egg, how many licks it takes to reach the centre of a Tootsie Pop, and where chocolate really comes from. It covers the sweets in every trick-or-treat bag and lunchbox, from M&M's, Skittles, Snickers and Kit Kat to gummy bears, Pez, Peeps, candy corn and jawbreakers, plus a few history and science questions about chocolate and chewing gum. Use it for a party, a classroom treat, a Halloween round or a car ride; every answer comes with a one-line explanation. Every answer has been checked against a primary source, mostly Wikipedia, and each question shows its citation.
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Q 01What company is known for producing the popular chocolate candies M&M's?
Mars, Inc.
Mars, Inc., and the M's stand for Mars and Murrie: Bruce Murrie, son of the Hershey president, was a partner whose company supplied the chocolate during wartime rationing. Mars bought him out in 1949.
Q 02Every bar of chocolate starts with which roasted, ground ingredient?
Cocoa beans
Cocoa beans: the seeds of the cacao tree are fermented, dried, roasted and ground into chocolate liquor, the base of every chocolate bar.
Q 03Which candy bar was sold in the UK as 'Marathon' until 1990?
Snickers
The name in Britain and Ireland changed to Snickers in 1990 to align with the global brand; a Marathon retro edition briefly returned to Morrisons in 2019.
Q 04Which American candy, invented in 1912 as a 'summer candy' that would not melt, comes as a roll of rings?
Life Savers
Life Savers, named for the ring-style life preserver they resemble. Clarence Crane, a chocolate maker, invented them because chocolate sales slumped in the heat; his son was the poet Hart Crane.
Q 05Under what name did cotton candy debut at the 1904 World's Fair?
Fairy Floss
A dentist, William Morrison, co-invented it in 1897 with confectioner John C. Wharton; at the 1904 St. Louis fair it sold 68,655 boxes at 25 cents each.
Q 06Which European city's marzipan has been EU Protected Geographical Indication since 1996?
Lübeck
Lübeck: 'Lübecker Marzipan' must contain at least 70 percent almond paste and no more than 30 percent sugar, a standard that Niederegger, founded in the city in 1806, exceeds.
Q 07Turkish Delight (Lokum) is a gel of starch and what sweetener?
Sugar
Sugar: lokum is a sugar syrup set with cornstarch into a soft gel, cut into cubes and dusted with icing sugar. Hacı Bekir popularised it in Istanbul from 1777.
Q 08Which flavor was among Jelly Belly's original eight gourmet jelly beans?
Very Cherry
Very Cherry was one of the original eight Jelly Belly flavours, alongside Tangerine, Lemon, Green Apple, Grape, Licorice, Root Beer and Cream Soda; the 'gourmet' beans are flavoured through the centre, not just the shell.
Q 09Pez, whose name is clipped from Pfefferminz, the German for peppermint, was first sold in 1927 in which country?
Austria
Austria: Eduard Haas III launched it in Vienna as an adult breath mint and an alternative to smoking, which is why the first dispensers were shaped like cigarette lighters. The character heads came later, in America.
Q 10What nut sits whole at the centre of a Ferrero Rocher?
Hazelnut
Hazelnut: each Ferrero Rocher holds a whole roasted hazelnut inside a hazelnut cream and wafer shell, coated in milk chocolate and chopped hazelnuts. Ferrero launched it in 1982.
Q 11Which M&M's variety, the first after plain, was introduced in 1954?
Peanut
Peanut M&M's arrived in 1954, the same year as the 'melts in your mouth, not in your hand' slogan; they came only in tan until other colours were added in 1960.
Q 12The Snickers bar was named after what?
The family's favourite horse
The family's favourite horse: Frank Mars named the bar, launched in 1930 for a nickel, after a horse the Mars family owned.
Q 13What three things are inside a Snickers bar under the chocolate?
Nougat, caramel and peanuts
Q 21The daisy-shaped Chupa Chups lollipop logo was designed in 1969 by which famous artist?
Salvador Dalí
Salvador Dalí sketched the daisy logo in 1969, reportedly in under an hour, and insisted it go on top of the wrapper so it would always be seen whole.
Q 22What flavour gives Red Hots candies their heat?
Cinnamon
Cinnamon: Red Hots are small cinnamon-flavoured hard candies made since the 1930s, also sold generically as 'cinnamon imperials'; the cinnamon oil is built up in layers around a sugar core.
Q 23Tootsie Rolls were the first candy in America to be what?
Individually wrapped
Individually wrapped: from 1896 each Tootsie Roll was sold wrapped in its own paper for a penny, a first for American penny candy; each batch is seeded with a little of the previous day's.
Nougat, caramel and peanuts: a layer of peanut nougat topped with caramel and roasted peanuts, all enrobed in milk chocolate. Snickers launched in 1930.
Q 14A standard Kit Kat is made of pieces called what?
Fingers
Fingers, and the snap is the point: a Rowntree's factory worker had asked for 'a chocolate bar that a man could take to work'. In Japan the name sounds like 'kitto katsu', 'surely win', so it is given before exams.
Q 15Which chocolate bar's advertising slogan, used since 1958, begins 'Have a break'?
Kit Kat
Kit Kat: 'Have a break, have a Kit Kat' was written by Donald Gilles at the agency J. Walter Thompson in 1957 and ran in British TV adverts from 1958.
Q 16Gummy bears were invented in Germany in 1922 by the founder of which candy company?
Haribo
Haribo: Hans Riegel founded the company in Bonn in 1920 and launched the Gummibärchen, first sold as the Tanzbär ('dancing bear'), in 1922, inspired by trained bears at fairs.
Q 17Cotton candy is made by spinning what?
Melted sugar
Melted sugar: the machine heats sugar until liquid and spins it through tiny holes, where the threads cool instantly into floss.
Q 18Which ring-shaped mint did Rowntree's launch in 1948?
Polo
Polo: Rowntree's of York launched the ring-shaped mint in 1948 and advertised it for decades as 'the mint with the hole'.
Q 19Which British sweet, launched by Rowntree's in 1937, has a sugar shell around milk chocolate?
Smarties
Smarties: Rowntree's of York launched the sugar-shelled chocolate beans in 1937, four years before M&M's; the orange ones are flavoured with orange oil.
Q 20The word 'lollipop' is said to come from the name of a what?
Racehorse
George Smith of Connecticut named his candies-on-sticks after the horse Lolly Pop around 1908.
Q 24Which animal in the Tootsie Pop ad bites the lollipop after just three licks?
The owl
The owl: Mr. Owl takes three licks, crunches the Tootsie Pop and answers 'three' in the long-running animated advert, which ends 'The world may never know'.
Q 25Candy corn was originally sold under what farm-themed name?
Chicken Feed
Chicken Feed: the Goelitz company (later Jelly Belly) sold candy corn under that name from about 1898, with a rooster on the box, to a largely rural America.
Q 26What is the little paper strip sticking out of the top of a Hershey's Kiss called?
A plume
A plume: the paper strip, a registered trademark, was added in 1921 when machine wrapping replaced the hand-wrapping used since the Kiss's 1907 debut.
Q 27Which chocolate bar, launched in 1951, has a moist coconut centre?
Bounty
Bounty: Mars launched the coconut bar in 1951 in milk and dark chocolate versions, and its adverts long promised 'the taste of paradise' on tropical beaches.
Q 28The Milky Way bar, first sold in 1923, was named after what?
A malted milkshake
A malted milkshake: Frank Mars wanted a chocolate bar that tasted like the popular malted-milk drink, so its nougat is malt-flavoured; it went on sale in 1923 for a nickel.
Q 29The 3 Musketeers bar got its name because the original 1932 pack held three pieces in which flavours?
Chocolate, strawberry and vanilla
Sugar rationing in wartime killed off the strawberry and vanilla ones, leaving only chocolate.
Q 30The triangle shape of a Toblerone bar is said to be inspired by which mountain?
The Matterhorn
The Matterhorn: the peaks are popularly linked to the mountain near Zermatt, though Theodor Tobler's sons said a pyramid of dancers at the Folies Bergère inspired them. Toblerone dates from 1908.